Capaldi’s comeback, celeb sightings and many spoons

Is it actually over? After 5 days of shock performances, setlist clashes, loopy outfits and blistering warmth, Glastonbury is closing its gates till 2027.

We watched epic exhibits from Pulp and Olivia Rodrigo, did viral dances with CMAT and Charli XCX and, for no obvious motive, noticed two incarnations of Physician Who on stage with Franz Ferdinand and Jade.

There’s all the time an excessive amount of to course of within the second. We missed Gary Numan making his Glastonbury debut, and have been locked out of Scissor Sisters’ epic set on the Woodsies stage after turning up too late.

However listed below are a few of the highlights and memorable moments from a weekend of mayhem.

In 2023, Lewis Capaldi needed to abandon his Glastonbury set, after Tourette’s syndrome brought about his vocal cords to grab up.

He took two years off to cope with his well being points, however that incomplete set was all the time in the back of his thoughts. On Friday, he arrived unannounced on the Pyramid Stage to complete what he could not final time.

“Second time’s a appeal on this one, all people,” he stated, as tears welled up in his (and our) eyes.

The set was quick on time, however massive on emotion. From the opening traces of Earlier than You Go to the set-closing Somebody You Beloved, the gang sang each line, giving the star their full consideration and affection.

Lewis, displaying not one of the bodily tics that plagued him two years in the past, was in tremendous type. That sandpapery voice was undiminished, even because the lump grew in his throat.

As he laid his Glastonbury ghosts to relaxation, he noticed that Friday’s set would even be tough to complete for “totally different causes. Good causes.”

A weekend at Worthy Farm is not full with out a celeb sighting or two and this 12 months has definitely delivered.

One Route followers have been delighted to see Harry Types and Louis Tomlinson in attendance, presumably to see The 1975’s headline set on Friday. Harry was additionally noticed within the subject for Doechii’s set, dancing with a manbag slung over his shoulder.

The backstage areas have been stuffed to the brim with appearing royalty, together with Eddie Redmayne, Taron Egerton (who watched Lewis Capaldi’s set together with his high off), Lily James and Paul Mescal.

Andrew Garfield was additionally noticed at a fan Q&A, speaking about his new movie We Reside in Time – in addition to studying some spicy social media posts followers had written about him.

It was additionally nice to see a few of the weekend’s performers letting their hair down after hours.

Lorde was noticed within the South East Nook dancing at NYC Downlow on Saturday morning, while Charli XCX celebrated headlining the Different Stage by dancing alongside fiancé and The 1975 drummer George Daniel at a 1am DJ slot on Sunday morning.

Glastonbury veterans corresponding to Pixie Geldof, Lily Allen, Alexa Chung and Daisy Lowe have been additionally on website over the weekend too, proving you could be effortlessly glamorous in a sweaty subject (so long as you might have cash to burn and entry to electrical energy and operating water).

Alanis Morisette’s Jagged Little Tablet is the biggest-selling debut album of all time, with gross sales of 33 million.

With the file celebrating its thirtieth birthday this month, the singer made her Glastonbury debut with a spectacular sundown efficiency on the Pyramid Stage, that confirmed songs like You Oughta Know and One Hand In My Pocket have misplaced none of their edge, or their attract.

The singer, now 51 years outdated, had the strongest vocals of the weekend, belting out the hits so arduous that she needed to maintain her microphone a stable three toes from her mouth, as she spun across the stage in a guileless blur of sparkles and hair.

However when she broke into Ironic, followers had a shock in retailer: Spoons. A whole lot of spoons.

They held them aloft through the lyric “it is like 10,000 spoons when all you want is a knife” – a line that comic Ed Byrne as soon as identified “is not ironic, it is simply frickin’ silly.”

“We have not bought 10,000 spoons between us. How massive is your sink, Alanis?”

Over within the Kidz subject, there have been enormous queues for the acute sports activities phenomenon generally known as Sock Wrestling.

The idea is easy: Two youngsters face one another on a mat, every sporting a single sock. Then they circle, provoke and grapple one another till one triumphantly rips off the opposite’s footwear and claims victory.

On Saturday, it devolved into chaos when one child challenged their dad to a face-off.

However the dad wasn’t ready to lose face. Years of familial rigidity boiled over because the stand-off turned unnecessarily, dramatically tense.

Then, within the phrases of 6 Music’s Steve Lamaq, “the child flattened his dad” and the gang went nuts.

Somebody fee this for prime time BBC One proper now.

If Fatboy Slim is not right here, does Glastonbury even occur?

The DJ/producer performed his one hundredth (and a hundred and first and 102nd and 103rd) set on the farm this weekend, drawing enormous crowds in all places he went.

He celebrated his centenary with a mash-up of his signature hit Reward You, and The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Membership Band.

As you may anticipate, it went off. He is come a good distance, child.

Irish singer CMAT ended her efficiency on the Pyramid Stage by saying it was “the largest second” of her profession.

Requested how she was processing that unbelievable reception, she instructed us she had “no concept”.

“I believe I will course of it in about three to 5 enterprise months,” laughed.

The 29 12 months outdated, whose actual title is Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson, stated she did not converse for round an hour after her set ended.

“I used to be fairly, fairly shocked. Yeah, no concept,” she stated.

“I am scared nonetheless. As if it is about to occur, however it’s over.”

She stated it had taken “fixed grafting” to get to the Pyramid Stage – however all of the observe paid off, as she lit up the stage along with her highly effective vocals and kooky stage presence.

It felt very very like we have been watching a star being born. She’ll be again right here very, very quickly.

Noticed by the unbelievable staff behind the @GlastoLive account on Bluesky, this set up is made solely of keys that folks misplaced or left behind after final 12 months’s pageant.

When you’re nonetheless on website this morning, verify your pockets earlier than you go!

Rave pioneers The Prodigy made a triumphant return to Glastonbury, headlining The Different Stage on Sunday, 30 years after their debut.

It was an incendiary set – you might even name it a Firestarter – however there was additionally a contact of poignancy, because it was the band’s first Glastonbury with out frontman Keith Flint, who died by suicide in 2019.

The band’s vocalist, Maxim, stepped up in his place – with hits like Omen and Breathe inflicting pandemonium within the packed-out subject.

“I believe Mr Flint would have have been happy with you,” he declares to the 1000’s watching.

The star’s reminiscence was additionally honoured at Glastonbury’s notorious Carhenge set up, with a brand new mural that captured his fierce punk vitality.

“Every of the vehicles have been devoted to characters whose life’s work has contributed to the underground tradition, which is now our tradition,” stated artist Joe Rush, who curates Carhenge, in a BBC interview final 12 months.

Glastonbury’s flags are a useful method for mates to search out one another in a crowded subject, however they’re additionally an outlet for creativity.

Our favourites this 12 months included a tribute to TV character Kim Woodburn and a Charli XCX-themed banner bearing the legend “bratwurst”.

However not everyone seems to be a fan.

Poet and BBC radio presenter Robin Ince posted the next poem to his Bluesky account because the pageant kicked off.

I do know you are happy with your city, your joke, your staff

However I am right here to see Self Esteem

Not your wind-blown patchwork

That obscures Jarvis Cocker’s twerk

However as a lot as I wish to see bands which might be dwell

I do not thoughts in the event you cowl up The 1975

The Avengers and Sherlock star was reminiscing with Simon Pegg on Saturday about his first journey to Glastonbury – and let’s simply say it wasn’t 100% legit.

“I went underneath the fence, I do not know if I am presupposed to say this, however I did,” he instructed the BBC.

He added that he broke in by going “underneath the tunnel” and made his method there to see Pulp carry out.

This is hoping that he managed to meet up with the band after their shock set on Saturday to recount the story to them, too.

“And I had my tent on a really, very steep slope,” Cumberbatch added cheekily.

At house, you are most likely not conscious of this – however there’s a complete staff at Glastonbury devoted to creating “broadcast secure” variations of the music for daytime radio, to keep away from the wrath of Ofcom.

They sit in a cramped workplace, fastidiously enhancing out curse phrases. And, because the taboos round express language have weakened, their job’s solely turn out to be more durable.

“Did you see the swear sheet for Self Esteem?” I heard one sigh on Friday night time.

“After the second mom****** I used to be like, ‘That is going to be an extended night time’.”

Glastonbury loves a shock set, and this 12 months they outdid themselves. The “secret” acts (whose secrets and techniques weren’t notably effectively stored) have been so massive that they usually overshadowed the headliners.

Lorde was first up, sauntering onto the Woodsies’ stage on Friday morning, taking part in her just-released album Virgin to an keen crowd of followers.

Lewis Capaldi bought a hero’s welcome as he performed the Pyramid Stage in a “TBA” slot; and the mysterious band billed as Patchwork have been, to no-one’s shock, Pulp.

The Britpop heroes have been marking the anniversary of their 1995 headline set: One of many actually legendary Glastonbury performances, the place the band – who’d simply launched Frequent Individuals – first established their standing as nationwide treasures.

They completed the set with that tune, naturally, assisted by Pink Arrows flypast; and Sunday night time headliner Olivia Rodrigo hollering the lyrics from her boyfriend’s shoulders.

Elsewhere, there have been unannounced units by CMAT and Kae Tempest on the BBC Introducing Stage, an impromptu efficiency by Olivia Dean within the Strummerville tent.

And Haim drew what one colleague described as The Park Stage’s biggest-ever viewers once they appeared shortly after 7pm on Saturday night time.

The Californian sisters’ sun-kissed storage rock was the right soundtrack because the solar set over Worthy Farm – with highlights together with a muscular tackle The Steps, the loping groove of Taylor Swift collab Gasoline, and the completely fed-up pop hit Relationships.

The standard of this 12 months’s shock units is indicative of 1 factor: With no Glastonbury in 2026, and the acts who might have headlined subsequent 12 months’s instalment did not wish to miss out.

“He’s maybe the perfect songwriter to come back out of England, he’s a Glastonbury legend and a private hero of mine,” Olivia Rodrigo tells the viewers throughout her headline slot.

She is speaking about Robert Smith, The Treatment’s frontman for the previous 49 years and a four-time Glastonbury headliner.

There are audible gasps from a number of mums and dads within the crowd when one viewers member asks, “Who’s he?” however you’d hope they have been gained over after a fully excellent duet on the Pyramid Stage.

The pair sang Friday I am in Love and Simply Like Heaven, with their vastly totally different sounding vocals by some means contrasting completely.

Rodrigo confessed her love of British tradition all through, together with Marks and Spencer’s Colin the Caterpillar and in addition admitted she’d bought by way of “three sticky toffee puddings” since arriving on Worthy Farm.

Maybe she‘ll give apple crumble a go subsequent.

You are able to do something at Glastonbury. Even get married.

Charles and Charlie Shires turned up at a recording of the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast, contemporary from a ceremony on the pageant’s Therapeutic Fields.

They’d actually tied the knot, in an historical Celtic ceremony generally known as handfasting, the place a pair’s arms are certain collectively.

“We made our personal hand-tying twine out of ribbons,” defined Charlie. “I used to be crying the entire method by way of. It was very beautiful.”

“Are your loved ones pissed off with you?” requested Annie Mac.

“In all probability,” laughed Charles. “However we simply thought that is the perfect place, proper? Everybody has probably the most enjoyable on this place each summer season.”

To have fun, Charlie – who’s an expert baker – introduced a marriage cake from their house in Yorkshire, and distributed slices to the viewers.

“I am unable to consider it survived,” she laughed.

Glastonbury is taking subsequent 12 months off, however that does not imply Emily Eavis shall be placing her toes up.

“We purchased some land on the skin of the positioning and we’re simply going to do an enormous planting undertaking,” she instructed the BBC’s Sidetracked podcast.

The undertaking, which is able to see 30,000 new saplings added to the positioning, is meant to “restore the wild aspect of the farm and the encompassing land,” she added.

The pageant will not be removed from her thoughts, although. All weekend, Eavis has been wandering across the website making notes on her cellphone about enhancements she desires to make.

“I’ve bought an enormous record of little issues,” she instructed the on-site newspaper, The Glastonbury Free Press.

“We’re all the time trying to make it higher. The element is vital. Even only a small contact – like placing a brand new hedge in – could make an actual distinction.

“And that is what fallow years are for: you lay the bottom to relaxation and also you come again stronger.”

See you in 2027, then. *sniff*